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[Motorola Photon 4G] zerohaste:
My biggest issue with the display is the gradient banding. I could live with the screen door effect, which isn't as noticeable to me when the brightness slider is is lined up to the tick box for the auto brightness setting, but the color banding and dithering all over the phone drives me crazy.

Is this only a 16 bit color depth display, or is it somehow because of the pentile screen?
[Motorola Photon 4G] kawaski47:
Seriously. I just thought I was tired and it would go away but nope. Eyes and head started to hurt whenever looking at the phone. Swapped phones and headaches are gone. I really wanted to keep the phone and if it wasn't for the display I probably would have
[Motorola Photon 4G] thekarens:
I'm fine with the screen, knew exactly what I was getting when I bought it. One little annoying thing to me is my yellow on apps, etc looks like mustard instead of yellow. Any solution or tips if this can be fixed?
[Motorola Photon 4G] tx_dbs_tx:
Photon screen vs EVO 3D screen

I bought me a Photon yesterday after reading some info about it. The screen is noticeably differrent than my EVO 3D but people need to understand the difference and benefits of PenTile technology. There are pros and cons and in my opinion the pros outweigh the cons.

Looking at the Photon's screen next to my EVO 3D I notice the screen door artifacts on some images as well as what looks like grainy pixels throughout the screen. I turned my brightness all the way down and that goes away. The photon's screen is much brighter and has a much higher contrast ratio and even on the lowest brightness setting it still looks great.

Here are the benefits of the Photon's lcd...

1. BATTERY LIFE!!! (Much better than ANY HTC EVO or any 4.3" display without PenTile technology)

2. Higher color saturation and contrast ratio (although I agree that Motorola needs to fix the color temperatures. Examples: humans have red skin in videos)

3.again... BATTERY LIFE! This is BIG advantage over other lcd screens!

Trust me its worth it. We all know how bad it sucks to get horrible battery life on the HTC EVO and seeing the culprit being the lcd screen. Not the case with the Motorola Photon!

Im very happy to finally be able to leave home without a charger. Not the least bit nervous about my Photon battery going dead. Think about it and you might be happier than you thought. There are other very good features and benefits that the Photon has but this post is just about the screen.

Heres a hint: Awesome signal strength in normally weak signal areas! I was barely getting 3G data on both of my EVO 4G's at mythe home and my EVO 3D is much worse. Now with my Photon I get good consistent 3G and now my 4G works with little to no disconnects INSIDE MY HOUSE WITH A METAL ROOF! Now thats an awesome radio! Im keeping my MoPho!
[Motorola Photon 4G] bricky23:
That's why I couldn't see why people complained about the display. I thought the screen was to bright, so i turned the brightness down when I got the phone.

Loving this Mopho!
[Motorola Photon 4G] bitbang3r:
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I've done some experiments and discovered that the poor image quality with the Photon (specifically, the "black crush" effect that attenuates darker intensity levels to black) appears to be a software problem and bug, and NOT an immutable hardware defect.

Try this experiment with both the Photon and a phone (like the Epic) that doesn't exhibit the behavior:

1. Download and display the gradient pic from http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/all_noprofile.php on both the Photon and the Epic (or Evo).

2. Take a screen capture from both.

3. Load the screen capture images onto a PC running Windows, and compare them side by side. The Epic's capture looks fine. The Photon's capture looks like crap.

Put another way, somewhere along the way, RGB values are getting mangled between the API and frame buffer. I suspect there's a 16-bit RGB conversion happening at some point along the color chain that's mis-quantizing and screwing up the gamma at both ends (attenuating low values to 0, washing out bright values to 255). If I had to guess, it's almost certainly kernel level, and possibly a bug in the OEM Tegra drivers themselves.

Think about it for a minute -- if it were the display, you'd expect the underlying RGB data ripped from RAM to look the same on both the Epic and Photon. It doesn't. Moreover, you can see the exact same thing happen with screen captures from the Xoom -- a device that doesn't even HAVE a Pentile display.

The point is, I think this is something that's both real AND fixable. I remember reading something that mentioned a similar problem in some older version of Cyanogen (CM5 or CM6?) that somehow got fixed in CM7.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Custodian:
Okay guys. Moto os aware of the display and are planning a release for the fix. A sprint rep with a mopho told me that.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cltme89:
For a qHD screen its not the sharpest thing around. Personally there are much better displays. But u watch a HD movie on it and it looks pretty good.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kingbg23:
Personally, my workaround was to lower the brightness. The screen seems damn nera perfect to me now. Of course, this is just an opinion.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cutter2668:
Hmmm

so HD vidoes are good but low quality videos are bad huh? Did it ever occur to you that the problem is in the video quality? lots of bad quality videos on the web and you tube, your phone cant make crappy video look like anything else other than crappy. Food for thought

---------- Post added at 12:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:41 AM ----------

Headaches? Really?

coming from the evo4g and looking at the evo 3d, the photon's screen is leaps and bounds superior.

the auto brightness setting on the photon works perfectly and makes the screen look fantastic

no one should be using their phone on max brightness

it is a great disservice to forum readers to post such madness
[Motorola Photon 4G] devilsshadow:
The photon is the only phone i've owned where auto brightness is actually there for a solid reason and works spot on. The pentile screen is not supposed to be run on max brightness. It only has those high levels available so the screen looks good outdoors.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
The 3VO gave me little headaches the 3D was not executed well at all....
[Motorola Photon 4G] olegfusion:
The screen is perfect for me. P.S. I moved from iPhone 4 with retina, and I confirm anyway I like photon's display.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ArchangelRenzoku:
+1

There are also some 3rd party netflix apps that enable HD netflix broadcasts on the mobile handset. Most of these files on there are coded to work with any android phone. Other handsets require a specialized version.

Take a look and decide which one you want for yourself.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15893974&postcount=2491

You can also do a search for user: SprintUSA and check all of his posts. You will see in there which versions he has out.

EDIT: It appears SprintUSA's account has been disabled... can't download any of his attachments. :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
All I have to say is this:

I use this phone as my everything. Although I have been through many issues and many replacements, this phone has a solid display. I think it has great graphics. When you turn the display down, you will save battery life, and you will like your screen much more.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ArchangelRenzoku:
I see exactly what you mean. I can't even watch star wars. Too dark during dark scenes. Any and all bright colors are ridiculously exaggerated but quite vivid.
[Motorola Photon 4G] zeguym:
May i know, fix for what ?

LCD's or its driver.

I have this MoPho for a few days. I can say, i don't really like it. I can see pixel. And sometime, its can make me headache.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
TURN DOWN THE BRIGHTNESS TO THE LOWEST SETTING!
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
If it bothers you so much get a different phone.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
Double post and caps necessary bubb?
[Motorola Photon 4G] DWake014:
I can tell the pixelation in the status bar but beyond that everything else looks amazing. I have dungeon defenders, asphalt 6, world of goo, and a few other games and they all look great to me. The screen doesn't look as nice as my gt nexus s but it also has a weird yellow hue on low brightness. The screen on that phone also destroys her battery. I'd rather have a bigger screen that isn't quite as crisp but has much better battery life. This seems like one of those 720 vs 1080 TV arguments. Unless the screen is huge (high 50s+) the average person can't really tell the difference.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kusanagi-sama:
I actually like this screen. When the phone turns up the brightness in the sun, I can read it quite well. I did watch Star Wars Clone Wars on the phone, and it was dark, but that doesn't bother me.

I honestly like how sharp this screen is. The "screen door" effect you guys are referring to is the slight ghosting that occurs when things move on the screen? (Note I have seen the same thing on the HTC Evo 4G)
[Motorola Photon 4G] diomark:
I had to get a re-furb as my headset jack stopped working. My new photon's screen is horrible compared to the old one:(

Favoring reds / really high contrast.. movies look bad..

-mark
[Motorola Photon 4G] kusanagi-sama:
Its a refurb for a reason. It probably went in for a bad screen.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kanagadeepan:
Yes... Pentile matrix display is one of the few things I don't like in my Photon.... Yes, I came from Super AMOLED EPIC...

Even in videos, human faces look too red, imho...
[Motorola Photon 4G] murrun:
i've got my photon today. i was aware of this situation but it's worse than my expectation. colorful icons are pixelated. also black is too dark in videos like some users point out. i think i'm in the "bad hardware" minority.
[Motorola Photon 4G] NukeFish:
I don't mind the screen as a whole but I've had a defective one and this new one is messed up too. The first one has some stuck pixels that wouldn't switch off red. The replacement has what can only be described as a smudge near the middle of the screen. A nickel sized area is dimmer than the rest of the screen, it's most apparent on a bright white background. The whole screen will be uniformly white except this one area that is slightly grey. I took it to Sprint and showed them, they said Moto wont do anything about it. Really bothers me, not sure if there's anything I can do.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Dsparil:
I like LG's Nova and Asus IPS display a. AMOLED looks nice, but due to burn in, it's not meant for phones.
[Motorola Photon 4G] murrun:
did anyone notice this type of pattern on their screen? i can see it in direct sunlight.
[Motorola Photon 4G] whatsitsnamenow:
That's normal.
[Motorola Photon 4G] KSmithInNY:
What you're seeing, and is shown in the photos, is the digitizer. Its the part of the screen assembly that recognizes input. Yes, mine is also visible when held on an angle into a bright light.

I've owned some phones where the digitizer isn't noticeable (htc devices) and others where its annoyingly obvious (palm pre). This one is kind of middle of the road noticeable IMHO.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dsims7_2000:
Somewhat True (All of it except HTC devices. Went thru 2 of them in 2 years with HTC Tilt. Got replacements off e-bay for like $10.00. Now that I think about it, guy I met on Tilt forum when thru a couple too, which is how I knew about it.)

As for Photon, I really cannot tell?
[Motorola Photon 4G] KSmithInNY:
Im afraid to ask what you guys were doing to phones to cause the screen assembly to malfunction but you have my attention .... ? :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] dsims7_2000:
1. The original Tilt was a POS!

2. I play with my phones no less than12 hours a day, I do.

And I will tell you a funny story quickly. I loved the tilt and texting was fun. I was in Stockholm at a bar, I started kicking it with these 2 6' blonde chicks. They wanted to know about America and I wanted some...........I went to take a leak, the 2 sluts AND my Tilt was gone!!! That pissed me off for 2 reasons, my first 32Gb MicroSDHC card, no way to call home, and Tilt was no longer available, So it was HTC Fuze next.

Since we are all friends here, Swedish women LOVE black men!!!

I went to a professional Basketball game, of the 24 players on the court, only one was white!!

I went to Swedish National Hockey. I was rooting for Finland as they had a brother on their squad. Homie never stood a chance as he spent 2.5 periods in the penalty box!!!

Lastly, no matter where you live in the US, If a woman ask where your from, pop a virgia and tell them NYC!!!!! TRUST ME!!!!

And if you REALLY want to party, take the 48 hour Viking Booze cruise from Stockholm to Helisinki and back. $350.00 for a Suite, get bottle of Henny, some Gin, and bottle of Grey Goose!!! The German women will find you!! I don't speak any German, but we had a GREAT time!!

Hum..........Dont get into drinking contest with Russian women, you will not win!!

I was hated in South Korea and China, no love from them!!!

Singapour, 1/2 the women are actually men!!!

New Zeland & South Africa are simply Beautiful! (Seriously Breath taking!)

Rio is a slum! Paris is a Slum! Germany has some nice Churches? Norway is nicee as long as you don't eat the Fish with that white sauce on it!

And my last piece of Advice (Since this is a phone thread!), if you have the chance to travel like I have the last 3 or 4 years, As soon at you get to Newark International Airport, TURN OFF THE DATA ON YOUR PHONE!!!!! Before I learned to flash and get VodoPhone SIM card, AT&T will ram you in the a**!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] KSmithInNY:
I suddenly have a strange urgency to book a trip ... im thinking Sweden, maybe Germany for some reason? LMAO! Damn sounds like you had some good times with that HTC.
[Motorola Photon 4G] dsims7_2000:
Well, on the cheap, Fly to Stockholm, party for the night, take the 48 hour cruise I mentioned (Get the suite, you'll need it!) Once they find out your American and from NYC................Take that same cruise from Stockholm to Luburg, Germany. Bus from Luburg to Hamburg, Germany. High Speed Train from Hamburg to Berlin! Germany is nice with lots of clubs, but there are just as many brothers there as in NYC it's self! Sweden and Finland I stuck out like a sore thumb and they found me!

I loved HTC and it worked like a charm. Fuze also! Dead Duck with Evo. Have not tried Photon as I have not left the country since June. Photon has been great for me until I startedF**king with it, now that I put it back to stock, great again. Maybe one or 2 dropped calls since I got it. I'm heading back to Sydney in June, so at some point before I leave I'll root it, but until then........Actually now that I think about it, after last week, I'm not rooting ****!!! I will pay you, deed, shabby, or joker to do it!! As Clint Eastwood said - "A mans got to know his limitations!" I found mine last Wednesday!
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
@dsims_2000 *-* you mean to root it??? Shabby left the Photon, Joker is super Busy, and there's me.... :) How can I be of assistance?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Android 17:
I can't see the digitizer at all on my EVO 4G, but it's very obvious to me on the Photon, at first I thought it was just the Pentile display, but it's really not bad once you up the brightness up outside.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Toney Starks:
I like the photon screen it looks miles better than the evo, the camera though is worse than the evos and i was watching eastbound and down on hbo go and humans did look a little bit too red
[Motorola Photon 4G] dsims7_2000:
just like you, some have gotten different phones but they still remain here!

When I want my phone rooted, I will overnight "Neo" to one of you guys or fly you here for weekend!
[Motorola Photon 4G] KSmithInNY:
Why don't you write up, to the best of your understanding, instructions to root, unlock the bootloader, and apply a custom recovery? Put it in a google word document and PM me the link and i'll review it for you.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
If you want me to do it, just let me know --- I'll PM you, but AIO (All In One) is really easy...

I'm not leaving the Photon forums because I still have the phone :D
[Nexus S General] frank707:
testing at this time, but thought why not create a thread :)
[Nexus S General] frank707:
reserved.. 2
[Nexus S General] frank707:
reserved.. 3 [just cause :)]
[Nexus S General] shabbypenguin:
reserved for reserving the right to reserve
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buds420:
Just grabbed a sprint samsung epic 4g and flashed it over to cricket. I have text call and web and internet but can't get multi media messaging working, can any one help me solve this issue. Stoned & frustrated!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_plattypus:
I am currently working on the HTC View Port to the EVO and I am in need of some skilled resizers. Tutorials, guides and one-on-one teaching welcome also. Thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liable16:
Well i love the rom not so sure on what needs resized but if you find a step by step im willing to help.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] officiallytook:
New to xda, not new to PhotoShop, and can pretty much figure things out...pm me, by the way love the ROM and would love to help to the completion.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cquinn:
Well if you want the image to center up on the home screen the way it's shifted left to right will depend on how many screens you have. I have 4 - which is 1 to the left and 2 to the right - so on a standard 960 pixels wide by 800 pixels high I have to center my image between 160 pixels on the left margin and 640 pixels on the right. Depending on the number of screens you have you'll have to play with it in Photoshop to get it the way you want it. I wrote up a little tutorial for all this here:

http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-tips-tricks/179417-how-make-wallpaper-your-phone.html

Hope that helps
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
When I look up downloads for the GT 10.1 in support/downloads it only shows Kies for MAC and for PC only drivers.

Am I missing something? It can't be only for MAC right?

Thanks
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pandamaja:
Thats really strange. The only windows download up there was the usb drivers.

I found this though http://www.thegalaxytabforum.com/in...load-transfer-files-to-galaxy-tab-from-pcmac/
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cleblanc92:
Samsung Link:

http://www.samsung.com/ca/support/mobilesoftwaremanual/mobilesoftwaremanual.do?page=MOBILE.SOFTWARE.MANUAL
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elizabeth05:
Download Kies for Windows :

http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.c...5/20110521192620273/Kies_2.0.0.11044_11_3.exe
[Motorola Droid X2] gcforreal:
Hey please forgive me if this has already been discussed but is it possible in the near future that the dx2 will recieve miui or even cm7. i see the droid 2 and x1 getting major love (ironically after vzw replaced my x1 with the x2) and i really want a new experience considering that the update was NOT the improved 3d blur found on the droid 3....thankx
[Motorola Droid X2] hackthis02:
Well I know someone is already working on CM7. And should have a working build in a week or two. As for the other, it's up to the devs.
[Motorola Droid X2] ericerk:
yes Miui and Cm7 are possible, also you can't have miui before cm7, they practically use cm7 to make miui, ergo the dx got "unlocked" at the froyo kernel from cm7, miui uses that kernel to work
[Motorola Droid X2] gcforreal:
Thanks for the speedy response guys. I hope we see both soon ..im really trying to like my x2
[Motorola Droid X2] ericerk:
i LOVE MIUI best ROM EVAR I have contacted dev's and they're willing to do it, we just need cm7 which my friend is currently deving
[Motorola Droid X2] dragonzkiller:
Lol yes I am working on CM7. I'm on my own on this one cuz It seems like I have little help. But I'm getting somewhere. In fact the GB leak helped me. But I'm trying billions of different ways of getting it to boot. So far I'm getting no where...
[Motorola Droid X2] gcforreal:
Thankx ...i really hope you're able to get a stable build up and going but i know its probably difficult with little help ...i hope the x2 dev. community picks up soon. so talented devs like yourself will have a team to work with
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ranshe:
Hi,

Google was not friendly this time - but I might have asked the wrong question...

Anyway, I want to root a Cricket Samsung r720 - any leads?

Thanks,
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fastwanabe:
Currently on the same quest, Samsung fascinate usb drivers work for this phone. All methods Ivs tried dont work, z4, gingerbreak, oneclick..... nothing. I cant even get this phone into recovery.

EDIT.... Recovery ( Vol down + back button + power)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] natalic:
i have original firmware for this phone...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ranshe:
?

Can you please elaborate what this means :confused:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ranshe:
So now that this device is official (Vitality), any chance to get some "root love"?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aaronmy:
Well since metropcs and this phone is the same, most likely the root metro has will root it.

You can find it here. http://androidforums.com/admire-all...e-sch-r720-windows-mac-linux-9-12-2011-a.html
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ranshe:
Tried that

Thanks, tried it, didn't work :(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] derrickblogs:
Rooting Huh?

Well after spending a second day trying to solve my problem I had superuser on my phone well someone elses phone, but something went wrong so I am throwing in the towel before I have to by someone a phone because this is how I got myself into this I tried to help someone get more business turns out the guy is a loser so I am stuck with having to give someone some free technical features, but rooting wont be one of them, I am going to figure some other ways to spice the phone of for them I just really don't have the time nor the patience with all the reading and materials and the drivers that won't run on my system some of this is a headache for people who are not that good with this sort of machinery.

And I have found that there are so many who say there good but when it comes down to it, I have had two bad experiences this is why I was trying to show some people some new ways to have there phones done, but I realize a few things I am not helping people out no more fu*k'em I got my phone done and complete and I am tired of helping others out and just about everyone who I went to meet up with in Philadelphia and this other guy who answers and gets back to you when he's ready this phone thing is a little much, like you guys say if you don't have the experience then leave it alone.

Because I have to return this phone to someone tomorrow but I thought I was bringing in some business for people but I know now some people just want to stay living at home with mother. So good luck watching Jerry all your life. Anyone

who has someone who can refer me to a real flasher or tech person no more people in the state of Pennsylvania all of them have been crooks. Sorry S. Bonner but you are hitting the #2 on the list. But anyway I need to get in touch with someone who will get paid as long as the job is done 100% and I am talking remote flashing nothing more and rooting. Remember if you live in the State of Pennsylvania don't bother me I want people who want to work.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] plmosqueda:
Hi, i already install Cyanogen mod in a Motorola Milestone but when i write a sms with swype keyboard it reduces from 160 characters to 63. Someone have this problem?? Thanks

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